Washington won’t succeed if it tries to drive a wedge in the European Union with import tariffs, the new German economy minister, Peter Altmaier, has said during a visit to the US. Should Europe and the US plunge into a trade war, producers and consumers on both sides would pay the price, the minister warned. […]
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The Gun Debate Is Starting to Divide Democrats
Tighten background checks. Ban the so-called bump stocks that were used in last year’s Las Vegas massacre. Erect new hurdles to keep guns out of the hands of those diagnosed with mental illnesses. Reinstate the assault weapons ban. For many Democrats, these demands are the need of the hour, with the deadly Parkland, Florida, high […]
The Gun Debate Is Starting to Divide Democrats
Tighten background checks. Ban the so-called bump stocks that were used in last year’s Las Vegas massacre. Erect new hurdles to keep guns out of the hands of those diagnosed with mental illnesses. Reinstate the assault weapons ban. For many Democrats, these demands are the need of the hour, with the deadly Parkland, Florida, high […]
How the ‘digital divide’ is holding the U.S. economy back
GUEST: Today, Danilo Campos is a successful programmer in New York City. He previously served as the technical lead for Github, one of the rising giants in Silicon Valley and currently the largest open source web development platform in the world. His story began in New York City at 2 years old. He grew up […]
Organized Labor’s Growing Class Divide
Lately it seems that, every week, a new group of media employees votes to join a union. On Tuesday, a majority of employees at Slate voted to join the Writers Guild of America, East. This came a few days after newsroom employees of the Los Angeles Times voted to join the NewsGuild–Communications Workers of America. […]
FCC Won’t Redefine ‘Broadband;’ Move Could Have Worsened Digital Divide
The FCC backed away from an earlier proposal that would have lowered the threshold for connections to be considered “broadband,” and said it had rejected the idea of labeling mobile internet a replacement for home broadband. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a612f779ac41761b3416beb/master/pass/Ajit-FinalArt-892306956.jpg
Star Wars 8 Last Jedi: Did Rian Johnson want to ‘divide’ fans? Director speaks out
The Last Jedi scored highly with critics but audiences have been split more-or-less down the middle, thanks to a change in tone and surprising answers to some previous mysteries. Even Mark Hamill, who plays Luke Skywalker, has made it known that he had issues with his character’s trajectory. Johnson was asked by a fan on […]
The Brother-Sister Divide
MERCED, California—Nita Vue’s parents, refugees from Laos, wanted all nine of their children go to college. But Nita, now 20, is the only one of her brothers and sisters who is going to get a degree. A few of her sisters began college, and one nearly completed nursing school, she told me. Her brothers were […]
The FCC’s Latest Moves Could Worsen the Digital Divide
The Federal Communications Commission, under Chair Ajit Pai, proposed changes to the Lifeline program that subsidizes phone and internet service for low-income Americans. https://media.wired.com/photos/5a0de916a0b8e25ea300ae70/master/pass/AjitPaiFCC-HP-875001760.jpg Feed: All Latest
Mark Zuckerberg seeks forgiveness for ‘the ways my work was used to divide people’
(Reuters) — Facebook Inc founder and Chief Executive Mark Zuckerberg asked for forgiveness for ways his work was used to divide people in a Facebook posting marking the end of Yom Kippur, the Jewish holiday of atonement on Saturday. “For the ways my work was used to divide people rather than bring us together, I […]